Fans enter the stadium for the final Birmingham Barons game scheduled at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. The Barons plan to open next year's season at Regions Field under construction in Birmingham. (Mark Almond/malmond@al.com)

HOOVER, Alabama - Now that the Birmingham Barons are moving out of Regions Park, the city of Hoover is getting personnel in place to manage the facility and attract new events there.

The Hoover City Council on Monday night authorized Mayor Gary Ivey to hire two people to manage Regions Park on a contract basis. The jobs will pay $55,200 each.

Allen Pate, the city's executive director, said city officials have two people in mind for the jobs and the city plans to make offers this coming Monday. The people will not be city employees but will answer to Erin Colbaugh, the city's events coordinator, Pate said.

City officials expect to have plenty of uses for Regions Park, Pate said.

"We're getting a lot of requests," he said. "As much as anything else, it's going to be us picking and choosing which ones fit. So far, we've had no one in place to look at different events and pick the ones that are right for us."

Hoover wants to give the Birmingham Barons time to get established at the new Regions Field being built in downtown Birmingham and may consider another minor league baseball team sometime in the future, he said.

"I think we're going to have plenty of use for the stadium," he said.

Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., was practically filled to capacity as Mississippi State defeated Vanderbilt 3-0 to win the SEC Baseball Tournament Championship on Sunday, May 27, 2012. The announced crowd was 12,526, the eighth-largest in SEC Tournament history and the biggest one without Alabama. For the week, the SEC announced an average of 7,869 fans per session, the sixth-largest in SEC Tournament history and up 18 percent from last year. (The Birmingham News/Jeff Roberts)